Thursday 22, November 2012
Rev 5:1-10; Ps 149:1-9; Ps 95:8; Luke 19:41-44
How do you determine how valuable you are? I
am not in a position to guess your measure or gauge. Today’s first reading
gives us the measure – the blood of Jesus Christ. You have been bought by the
blood of Jesus Christ. You are high priced simply because you are valuable. You
have the spiritual DNA of God. You look like God. Reflect on this
transformative information about Jesus: “and with your blood you purchased for
God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Rev 5:9). You
belong to God. The blood of Jesus Christ has enlarged your sphere of human
power. You deserve honour and dignity. Build your personality from that vantage
point, from that advantageous position it will end up building you. Thomas
Jefferson and some friends were out on horseback riding. A stranded traveller
asked Jefferson for a lift across a swollen creek. “Why did you ask me, instead
of my companions?” queried Jefferson. “There are some personalities which seem
to say No and there are others which seem to say Yes,” answered the stranger. “Theirs
said No, and yours said Yes.”
